διάχῠσις, εως, ἡ,
diffusion, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.60, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 419c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; extension, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.771b] Refs 1st c.AD+]; spreading, γῆς [[ “Geoponica” 5.25.2 ] Refs]; δ. λιμνώδη λαμβάνειν to spread out like a lake, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marius” 37. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2 waste, loss, σπέρματος [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 4.4.7. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 softening, [[[prev. work] 4.12.2. ] Refs]
__II dissolution, liquefaction, opposed to πῆξις, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 382a30. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III relaxation, συστολαὶ καὶ δ. [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 410, compare 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.119; τὰς ἐπὶ σαρκὶ τῆς ψυχ ¯ ῆς δ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus [same place], compare 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.5 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; cheerfulness, ψυχῆς [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.97 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; merriment, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 46, Hierocl. p.54A., Herodianus Rhetor “de Figuris - Rhet.” p.92 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ridicule, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.37O. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; cheerful expression, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demosthenes” 25. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]